hmm it's going slightly downhill with jasmine's tokyo report...
"Europe is the same way, I?ve heard. A show might have a wildly divergent mix of styles: pop, metal, jazz, all on the same bill. The metal fans don?t stand there and boo the pop act, or vice versa. It?s all music to them. The obsession with ?branding? seems to be a strictly American phenomenon. Musicians aren?t cows."
bullshit. that's not true, at least in my corner of europe. on the other hand, we're fairly retarded, so who knows - maybe western europe is more like the description